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Huerfano County, Colorado

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County inventory for Huerfano County, Colorado is drawn from U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Compare / Home Health Compare (14,710 Medicare-certified nursing homes nationwide) with cost context from the private CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey - see our methodology. Home-health agency signature

CMS Home Health Compare maps no Medicare-certified home-health agencies into Huerfano County (lower tercile) beside 1 nursing home - CareScout 2025 Colorado medians + CMS Five-Star.

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Sheet CO-HUERFANO-COLORADO · Huerfano, CO

NH-ONE · BEDS-FEW · STAR-MID · HH-NONE · RANK-TAIL · PHOTO-NONE · AL-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • NH-ONE 1 home
  • BEDS-FEW 120 beds
  • STAR-MID 3.0★ avg
  • HH-NONE 0 agencies
  • RANK-TAIL #2,371/2,851
  • PHOTO-NONE No peer
  • AL-MID $6,584/mo
  • BOOK-FULL 1/1 NH · 0 HH

Stamps lead with home-health agency tercile (low) plus nursing-home inventory, licensed beds, Five-Star county average, corpus NH-count rank, photo-finish peer, and CareScout assisted-living medians.

What a thin home-health map shows for Huerfano County

Home-health coverage is thin in Huerfano County: no Medicare-certified agencies map in on the current CMS join beside 1 nursing home and 120 licensed beds. CMS nursing-home stars average 3.0/5 on rated homes.

With a thinner CMS book, cost context matters more per facility: CareScout 2025 Colorado medians run assisted living $6,584/mo, semi-private nursing $10,159/mo, private nursing $12,182/mo, home health aide $7,913/mo, adult day $2,275/mo. Verify rates with the named homes below.

Star counts across Huerfano County break as 1 at 3★. Ownership leans Government - Hospital district (100% of 1 homes). Families typically weigh the ladder alongside bed size, ownership, distance, and specialty units before visiting.

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Sources: CMS Nursing Home Compare + CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey. See methodology.

$6,584
Assisted Living / mo
$10,159
Nursing (Semi) / mo
$7,913
Home Care / mo
3.0
Avg CMS Rating

Nursing Homes in Huerfano County

1 CMS-certified homes in this county book, ordered by overall star rating.

Facility City Rating Beds Ownership
Spanish Peaks Veterans Community Living Center Walsenburg 3/5 120 Government - Hospital district

Read next when home-health coverage is thin

Decode Five-Star for Huerfano County homes
Thin-book context for Huerfano: What a county-average CMS overall rating does — and does not — tell a family.
Choosing among 1 Huerfano County homes
A visit checklist that starts from CMS stars, then adds staffing, ownership, and specialty units.
Paying for care when Huerfano AL medians run high
Sparse home-health path: Medicare vs Medicaid vs private pay when CareScout assisted-living medians sit in the upper band.
Cost calculator for Huerfano County planning
Sparse home-health path: State CareScout medians rolled into a monthly planning estimate.

Continue on the Colorado elder-care overview or the highest-rated states ranking. Costs shown are Colorado state-level medians from CareScout 2025 (county-level cost data is not available).

Read our methodology - how CMS Care Compare and CareScout 2025 are joined for Huerfano County.